Head Roc · “Police Origins” w/ “Tarzan” from Head-Roc’s “NEGROPHOBIA!” LP (2005) It was an honor to have been part of this classic track from Head-Roc.
Read moreAn iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)
Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was killed on April 11, 1999 by a revenge-hungry, white-majority police force in Orange, New Jersey, because the police were angry by the killing of…
Read moreAcademics In Cars #3: Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris Talks Baltimore, Police Training and Ivory Towers
Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, the only Black woman from Baltimore, working in Baltimore as a Criminologist, was our guest academic in the car and took us for a ride around Baltimore discussing how her own history growing up there informs her current work. That work involves community engaged police training and work within and about the…
Read moreCitations Needed Podcast (#6): The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy
From Citations Needed: “In Episode 06 we explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers with our guest Dr. Jared A. Ball. The white supremacist regime at work in the media can be broken down into…
Read morePolice Brutality is a Politically Protected Reality
Submitted to iMWiL! by Africa Jackson Quick question. Why do cowards get to take sick days off from basic accountability? Alonzo Smith is one of dozens of Black people subjected to blatant torture by police under Richard Daley’s watch. He filed a lawsuit in 2016 because the ‘enhanced interrogation’ tactics officers used on him more…
Read moreAdolph Reed on the Pitfalls of Racism and White Supremacy (As Analytical Tools)
Recently longtime activist scholar Adolph Reed wrote How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence in which he discusses his views regarding the shortcomings of prevailing analytical approaches within a broader Black Lives Matter movement.
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